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I love it when a plan comes together. Great work!

My thoughts on a process for automating a fly sparge.

http://www.embeddedcontrolconcepts.com/ ... e_System_3

I'm interested in your thoughts, how to explain it better. I'd like to keep this example basic for newer users to understand the basics of processes and state machines.

The SSR wiring is pretty easy, just wire the "+" pin of the SSR (sometimes labeled input or control) to the Out pin of the BCS, and the "-" pin to any of the BCS GND pins. The output side of the SSR can be thought of as a big switch, use it to break the hot line going to your ele...

Got it now with the update. Question: would it be better to run the HLT and RIMS on different legs of the 220? Since they'll likely be on at the same time, seems that they'd be more balanced that way? I'm by no means a 220v expert (I like my voltages in the single digits), so I'm asking not giving a...

Very nice. What's the 240v element for? Is that for the Boil Kettle?

The Output Value entries in the ucsysio[4:9] structure are read only (masked off). The reason for this (to answer your second question) is because you have to write the whole structure, not only the bits that you desire. So I tried to make any variables that would effect a running system read only f...

Yes! You will have access to every system variable. Perhaps more than you care for ;) I took a first shot at documenting the interface. http://www.embeddedcontrolconcepts.com/wiki/index.php?title=Open_Interface So in your example, if you want to read a Din0, simply read the file http://yourBCSipaddr...

This is a great idea. It would be cool if there was a little program that read in your BCS configuration file, and the Beersmith recipe, and updated a new config file. There would have to be some user input to identify the correct processes/states/outputs/setpoints/timers to update, since this could...

I believe that fitting will work. From Wikipedia:

Wikipedia wrote: Sometimes NPT threads are referred to as MPT ('Male Pipe Thread'), MNPT, or NPT(M) for male (external) threads; and FPT ('Female Pipe Thread'), FNPT, or NPT(F) for female (internal) threads.

Currently there are no plans to open up the complete source.

However, the interface is completely open, documentation is ongoing. Users are able to reprogram the BCS-460 through the Open Interface to create their own custom GUIs.